OTTAWA—This election season is as uninspiring as Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for president in the 2016 U.S. election, yet it’s probably one of the most important elections for at least a decade. This is the election that will determine who gets to redraw the board, in...
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Racism with a side of brie: the Green Party’s continued self-combustion
Jul 21, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—The Green Party is internally combusting like the engines its worked so hard to rid Canada of. For the last six weeks, the Conservatives-in-tree-pose party has been embroiled in accusations of anti-Black racism and sexism towards its leader, Annamie Paul, in...
Paul’s treatment exposes Green Party’s mud pit of institutional toxicity
Jul 14, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—The “Conservatives in tree pose” are not respecting their chakras. Instead, they’re a mud pit of institutional toxicity. In October 2020, the Green Party elected Canada’s first Black and first Jewish female leader, which was a shot in the arm of the paltry...
On Wednesdays, we wear reconciliation
Jun 30, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—It seems like Annamie Paul was right about this government when she accused Justin Trudeau of being a fake feminist and a fake ally. As if on cue, the Trudeau government continues to prove that while it pretends to be Dr. Melfi, it’s really Livia Soprano. On...
Immigration and racism on the pitch at Euro 2020
Jun 23, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—It’s Euro 2020 and frankly, it’s a welcome reprieve from Canada’s existential crisis brought about by weeks of racial tragedies. Sports, in addition to pop culture and fashion, are accessible ways to contextualize the greater societal and political issues, and...
The consequences of Islamophobic Conservative policies are coming home to roost
Jun 16, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—There is a direct line from the political and policy responses following 9/11 to the murder of the Afzaal-Salman family; there is a cause and effect when politicians spread state-sanctioned hate through policies and the rhetoric required to sell them to the...
The past is the present when it comes to Canada’s genocidal Indigenous policies
Jun 2, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—Even though Broadway is closed, Canada continues to turn in a Tony-winning performance of its ostensibly inherent commitment to niceness, fairness, and multiculturalism, while committing backstage atrocities. Anyone who has been through this country’s education...
A colour-blind society? Get your vision checked
May 26, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—May 25th was the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. How much our world has changed, how much it’s stayed the same. Floyd’s death was, what Texans call, “a coming to Jesus moment” for Turtle Island. It removed the veil of denial of police...
Speak no evil, see no evil: The importance of talking ‘politics’ at work
May 17, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—The old adage that one shouldn’t talk politics at work is yet another measure of professionalism that shapes company culture and can leave the most educated employees ignorant of the context of the world around them. Nearly a year after organizations wrote...